We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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